A41334:74
A sober reply to the sober answer of Reverend Mr. Cawdrey, to A serious…
A sober reply to the sober answer of Reverend Mr. Cawdrey, to A serious question propounded viz. whether the ministers of England are bound by the word of God to baptise the children of all such parents, which say they believe in Jesus Christ, but are grossly ignorant, scandalous in their conversations, scoffers at godliness, and refuse to submit to church discipline ... : also, the question of Reverend Mr. Hooker concerning the baptism of infants : with a post-script to Reverend Mr. Blake / by G.I. Firmin ...A sober reply to the sober answer of Reverend Mr. Cawdrey, to A serious question propounded viz. whether the ministers of England are bound by the word of God to baptise the children of all such parents, which say they believe in Jesus Christ, but are grosly ignorant, scandalous in their conversations, scoffers at godliness, and refuse to submit to church dicipline ... : also, the question of Reverend Mr. Hooker concerning the baptisme of infants : with a post-script to Reverend Mr. Blake / by G.I. Firmin ...
London: printed by J.G., 1653
A SOBER REPLY TO A SOBER ANSWER, &c.A SOBER REPLY TO A SOBER ANSVVER, &c.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I pray remember my Question, how it can be proved that the Officers must look more to this Seal then the other. 1 Cor. 11. It is said, Let a man examine himself, &c. True, so he hath need before he comes to Baptism: but what is this to the Officers of Corinth, the Lords Supper was administered every Lords Day in those times, what must the Officers examine them every week? here is work enough, they looked to them [or should have done] when they first took them in to be Members, and so if they did ⟨p. 11⟩not walk as such ought to do, they were to looks after them, reform, or cast out, but in so doing they saved other Ordinances as well as this. But we have a notion taken up, as if Discipline were appointed only to save the Lords Supper from being profaned, and no other Ordinance.
I pray remember my Question, how it can be proved that the Officers must looke more to this Seale then the other. 1 Cor. 11. It is said, Let a man examine himself, &c. True, so he hath need before he comes to Baptisme: but what is this to the Officers of Corinth, the Lords Supper was administred every Lords Day in those times, what must the Officers examine them every weeke? here is worke enough, they looked to them [or should have done] when they first tooke them in to be Members, and so if they did ⟨p. 11⟩not walke as such ought to do, they were to looks after them, reforme, or cast out, but in so doing they saved other Ordinances as well as this. But we have a notion taken up, as if Discipline were appointed onely to save the Lords Supper from being prophaned, and no other Ordinance.
Will the 44 [Greek or Hebrew] 9 prove it? I pray prove that Sanctuary (there mentioned) means only the Lords Supper, that Sanctuary and Lords Supper are [Greek or Hebrew], those who interpret, they ought to prove their interpretation, which you must clear to make your answer good, in P. 26.